Tests notwithstanding, while some international students already possess an excellent command of the local language upon arrival, some find their language ability, considered excellent domestically, inadequate for the purpose of understanding lectures, and / or of conveying oneself fluently in rapid conversations.

Tests have shown that they have a limited memory, and have a limited ability to learn.

* Tests the 440 kanji learned up to the third grade of elementary school ( age 9 ), including on readings and kun readings, stroke order, writing ability, ability to use in sentences, and the names of radicals.

* Tests ability to differentiate between homonyms

* Tests the 640 kanji learned up to the fourth grade of elementary school ( age 10 ), including on readings and kun readings, stroke order, writing ability, ability to use in sentences, and the names of radicals.

* Tests ability to differentiate between homonyms

* Tests the 825 kanji learned up to the fifth grade of elementary school ( age 11 ), including on readings and kun readings, stroke order, writing ability, ability to use in sentences, and the names of radicals.

* Tests ability to differentiate between homonyms

* Tests the 1006 kanji learned up to the sixth grade of elementary school ( age 12 ) ( the kyōiku kanji ), including on readings and kun readings, stroke order, writing ability, ability to use in sentences, and the names of radicals.

* Tests ability to differentiate between homonyms

* Tests on readings and kun readings, and the ability to use kanji in sentences

* Tests ability to differentiate between homonyms

* Tests on readings and kun readings, and the ability to use kanji in sentences

* Tests ability to differentiate between homonyms

* Tests on readings and kun readings, and the ability to use kanji in sentences

* Tests ability to differentiate between homonyms

* Tests the kanji learned through high school: requires the ability to read and write all of the 1945 daily use kanji ( jōyō kanji ), and knowledge of the 284 kanji used in names ( jinmeiyō kanji, 人名用漢字 )

* Tests on readings and kun readings, and the ability to use kanji in sentences

* Tests ability to differentiate between homonyms

* Tests the ability to read and write approximately 3000 kanji, with their on readings and kun readings

* Tests ability to differentiate between homonyms

Tests for DNA laddering differentiate apoptosis from ischemic or toxic cell death.

* Tests ability to differentiate between homonyms

Amiss was a veteran player and likely to open for England in the forthcoming Tests and seeing him struggle against Holding's pace was a warning of things to come.

Tests have shown that such a device, with a fresh battery, will furnish light continuously for at least 10 days.

Tests with beef have been largely unsuccessful because of the development of off-flavors.

The rain-affected Third Test ended with the last two Australian batsmen holding out for a draw and England won the Fourth Test by three wickets after forcing Australia to follow-on for the first time in 191 Tests.

The win-loss ratio in Ashes Tests ( up to and including the 2011 series ) stands at 123 wins for Australia to 100 wins for England, with 87 draws.

Cricket Australia proposed that the 2010 – 11 series consist of six Tests, with the additional game to be played at Bellerive Oval in Hobart.

John Atkinson ( editor ), current editor of Stereophile, stated ( in a 2005 July editorial named Blind Tests & Bus Stops ) that he once purchased a solid-state amplifier, the Quad 405, in 1978 after blind tests, but came to realize months later that " the magic was gone " until he replaced it with a tube amp.

The first was won with Cronje scoring 49 and 74 ; in the second Test, he took 3 / 14, his best bowling in Tests, and smashed 82 off 63 balls, his fifty being brought up with three consecutive sixes off Muttiah Muralitharan, and was reached off just 31 balls ; at the time, it was the second fastest in Tests after Kapil Dev's.

Botham's batting – although never the equal of his bowling abilities – declined as well, with a batting average of 38. 80 for his first 51 Tests substantially higher than the 28. 87 he managed in his last 51 Tests, again a number that would be considered unsatisfactory for a specialist batsman in most Test sides.

By the 1880s the tradition of England-Australia cricket tours was well established, with a total of eight Tests having been played, five of them at the MCG, two at the Sydney Cricket Ground and one at The Oval in London.

In Sri Lanka's humiliating drubbing at the hands of India in 1993 – 94, where all three Tests were innings defeats, Muralitharan was the sole success, with 12 wickets in the rubber.

Although his form with the willow dropped off in his remaining six matches before the Tests — a 35 was his only score beyond 20 in seven attempts — Benaud continued to strike regularly with the ball.

Despite his inability to contribute with either bat or ball in England, Benaud was the only bowler selected for all five Tests of the 1954-55 series when England visited Australia.

At this stage of his career, he had played 13 Tests with mediocre results.

In the previous seasons when he and his team were at their peak, he had scored 636 runs at 31. 8 with taken 108 wickets at 20. 27 in eighteen Tests, averaging six wickets a match.

Tests such as the DES provide a quick method of screening subjects so that the more time-consuming structured clinical interview can be used in the group with high DES scores.

" By holding what he called " Acid Tests ", and touring the country with his band of Merry Pranksters, Kesey became a magnet for media attention that drew many young people to the fledgling movement.

The tradition of hippie music festivals began in the United States in 1965 with Ken Kesey's Acid Tests, where the Grateful Dead played tripping on LSD and initiated psychedelic jamming.

Tests that are conducted are concerned with measuring the electrical functions of the brain, spinal cord, and nerves in the limbs and muscles.

Tests both on the sea and in the air showed that Bolas had fully met the requirements and it was officially judged to be exceptionally good ; it was successfully launched by catapult from the ill-fated submarine M2 but the concept of submarine-carried aircraft died in the Royal Navy after the loss of the M2 which took one of the Petos with it.

Tests were later done with Mario characters in dollhouses and such.